Ninja Pot Shadow

A massive torrent of water appeared out of nowhere, a raging flood that swept across the land with immense force, attempting to sweep away a Shukaku.

The fully-formed tailed beast and the sealed Gaara are completely different concepts.

Just as Ino unleashed her Great Explosive Water Wave, before it even reached the feet of the Tailed Beast, an endless expanse of yellow sand appeared out of nowhere, relentlessly attacking the Great Explosive Water Wave. The water flow was rapidly consumed, and even more sand continued to surge forth.

Within ten seconds, they were locked in a stalemate. To the east, the yellow sand was rolling, and the fury and heat could be felt even from dozens of meters away.

To the west, a raging floodwater, serene yet brimming with power.

Ino's chakra is much stronger than that of an ordinary ninja, but compared to a tailed beast, the difference is obvious.

Shukaku's yellow sand clashed fiercely with Ino's massive burst of water. The sand and the torrent collided, and a dense rain of mud fell from the sky, which then turned into fist-sized clumps of yellow mud.

The yellow sand came on fiercely, swirling and tumbling in the air, growing ever larger. Ino kept increasing her strength, but her water flow was still losing ground.

Genma Shiranui was also present. He used two fire-style ninjutsu in succession and threw more than ten kunai in all directions. He even spat out the senbon he was holding in his mouth, trying to attract the attention of the tailed beasts. However, the tailed beasts had amazing defensive capabilities, and the runes on Shukaku's body could also provide a considerable defensive effect. They didn't even glance at Genma Shiranui's attacks and were focused on confronting Ino head-on.

Princess Konoha's decline is becoming increasingly apparent, and the water flow has been squeezed into an extremely narrow space.

At the critical moment, Sasuke stepped on water and rushed out from the side.

The Thousand Birds, accompanied by a sharp buzzing sound, pierced fiercely into the tailed beast's rear end...

Sasuke moved with lightning speed. He thrust Chidori into the tailed beast's large buttocks, his hand and elbow completely disappearing into the beast's body. He raised his left foot and stomped hard on the tailed beast's buttocks, using the momentum to his advantage. His body stretched out like a bow, and he used the power of a backflip to quickly pull out his arm, creating some distance. He gathered lightning chakra, let out a shout, and charged again, unleashing another Chidori at the same spot.

Two consecutive Lightning Release ninjutsu made the Tailed Beast involuntarily turn around, wanting to see which little fly was bothering it.

Then, the fat men of the Akimichi family rushed up and beat him severely.

By constantly drawing attention to themselves, the Nara clan's ninjas finally found their opportunity to strike.

This time, it was the head of the Nara clan, Shikaku, who personally took action. His shadow, like a sharp arrow, quickly merged into the shadow of the tailed beast from the side.

The Nara clan's Jonin, Chunin, and Genin, including Shikamaru, all merged their shadows into Shikaku's shadow from the left and right sides like fish bones. The black shadow meandered and swirled, quickly covering the tailed beast's entire body from its feet. Its movements became increasingly sluggish. With the support of its clansmen, Shikaku trembled slightly, but still managed to control the tailed beast's movements.

"No, the tailed beast's resistance is stronger than I expected. You must injure it. Hurry, use whatever techniques you have!" With the help of Inoichi's sensory transmission, he conveyed his thoughts to all the ninjas present, including Naruto, Sasuke, and Genma Shiranui.

Upon encountering such a strange ninjutsu for the first time, Naruto touched his head, wondering if he was hallucinating.

Sasuke, on the other hand, looked serious and prepared to unleash another Chidori on One-Tail.

"Can your hands still use Chidori? Take a rest first, let me do it." Ino stopped him.

After using Chidori repeatedly, Sasuke's right hand was almost completely bruised...

She does possess powerful ninjutsu.

In order to force the tailed beasts to retreat, she revealed a trump card, a ninjutsu she created herself.

Ino gave a soft shout and created two shadow clones. Her main body continuously converted chakra into poison, while one shadow clone used Water Release and the other used Wind Release.

Using the knowledge she learned from Jiraiya and Asuma, the hand seals for the three ninjutsu she was performing were in completely different order, yet they looked remarkably harmonious.

Ino first sprayed out poisonous mist, then used water jutsu to turn the mist into poisonous water, and finally used wind jutsu to expand the range of the poisonous water to its maximum.

"Combined Ninja Technique: Poisonous Pufferfish!"

The purple poisonous water quickly condensed and then, with the help of the wind release, shot towards the tailed beast like fine raindrops.

The One-Tailed Beast has now transformed into its complete form by using Gaara's body. It also possesses some of Gaara's skills, such as the Sand Shield.

The Nara family's Shadow Binding Technique could only control his body; it couldn't control the sand.

Faced with the poisonous rain, he quickly erected a sand shield for defense.

The incredibly thick Sand Shield was immediately riddled with holes by the poisonous rain. The corrosiveness of the toxins was far greater than that of the previous blisters. A drop of water the size of a spittle could punch a hole the size of a fist. Behind the Sand Shield were the Sand Armor and Sand Clone. All three layers of shields were broken, and the remaining poisonous water was almost entirely sprayed onto the Tailed Beast.

The toxins even breached the sand-covered body of the tailed beast, causing immense damage to Gaara inside.

Gaara, who had been stunned by the Tailed Beast's terrifying killing intent, slowly awoke. He felt pain, intense pain, even more so than when he was sealed with the Five Elements and had his chakra extracted from the Tailed Beast.

With the help of the tailed beast's eyes, he finally saw the enemy in front of him clearly. Damn it, it's you again? What grudge do you have against me?

Chapter 164 One-Tailed Shukaku

The highly corrosive poison caused Gaara's body to deteriorate rapidly.

When a Jinchuriki dies, the Tailed Beasts don't actually die. After a period of time, they will re-form somewhere in the world. However, at that time, their personalities and memories will be reset, essentially restoring them to factory settings, roughly the state when the Sage of Six Paths separated them. This can be considered a kind of death, and as intelligent beings, they certainly don't want to be reset.

Shukaku, the One-Tailed Beast, had to use its own chakra to repair Gaara's body.

Even the tailed beast with the least chakra is still a tailed beast.

Their recovery ability and chakra mobilization speed are unmatched by ninjas.

He recovered quickly and broke free from Shikaku's shadow binding technique with great force.

Fortunately, Ino's poisonous pufferfish combined with the characteristics of water-style techniques and fused with Gaara's blood, giving it a kind of insidious nature. The toxins penetrate quickly and deeply, making it difficult to eradicate in a short time.

Gaara's screams continued to ring out. At first, the sound was muffled because it was still inside Shukaku's body, but as the poisonous pufferfish punched hundreds of small holes in the tailed beast's body, his voice sounded very real.

It hurt! He had never been in so much pain before!

This is completely different from what I experienced before. Before, it was about not daring to sleep, about madness, about mental torment. Now, it's about pain, about physical devastation.

He never expected his body to hurt to this extent.

Temari and Kankuro, who had been secretly pursuing them, were in a panic. They hesitated for a moment and revealed their presence, and were then captured alive by the Ino-Shika-Cho trio of ninjas who rushed at them.

Seeing that she hadn't managed to take down a single pufferfish, and that the opponent's recovery speed was much faster than expected, Ino had no choice but to use her biggest trump card.

Using this technique will put the body into a very weak state. Often, she doesn't seek merit, but only to avoid mistakes, because she is worried that she will lose her life due to falling into a weak state.

Ninjas have high attack power but weak defense, and there are far too many examples of them being caught off guard and losing their lives.

Surrounded by the family's elite forces, she felt much more at ease.

At this time, her family is her greatest support, and the Pig-Deer-Butterfly Alliance is her solid shield.

"Get out of the way!" she shouted, and the fat men of the Akimichi family retreated in all directions as she rapidly formed hand seals.

She created a water clone, and then, just like Naruto's shadow clones could help him make Rasengan, she simplified the steps of the Steaming and Exploding Technique. One shadow clone added water, and the other added fuel! With the main body forming hand seals, Fat Ino appeared in less than two seconds.

"Let that little raccoon see our art! Blow him up!" With a flick of her finger, Fat Ino accelerated and crashed into Shukaku, who was standing still and constantly expelling toxins from his body.

Fat Ino's water-based chakra was rapidly heated, and scorching steam billowed from her body. Once the heat within her body reached its limit, she slammed into Shukaku, the One-Tailed Beast.

Even the One-Tailed Beast was startled by the sudden charge of the chubby Ino, instinctively knowing that this thing was no joke.

With the elimination of toxins and the breaking free from the Shadow Binding Technique reaching their final moments, the One-Tailed Beast had no choice but to extract a portion of Gaara's chakra for defense. There are gains and losses; having gained the host's chakra, it must inevitably relinquish some control over the body.

The One-Tailed Beast mixed Gaara's chakra with its own, pressing the surrounding sand tightly together to form a sand statue that wore a straw hat and resembled the One-Tailed Beast.

This is the strongest defensive ninjutsu, known as the Shukaku Shield.

At this moment, Shukaku made the same mistake as Orochimaru before, which was to believe that the fat Ino wouldn't turn!

With Ino shouting "Click!"

Like a collision between Mars and Earth, Fat Ino bypassed Shukaku's shield and then cheerfully bumped into the Tailed Beast.

The shockwave swept in all directions, blasting trees, bricks, houses on the street, and many other debris into pieces. Steam turned into a huge column of gas, and sand melted by hot oil flew in all directions. A fire broke out on the spot, accompanied by thick smoke.

Inoichi used a Wind Release ninjutsu to disperse the thick smoke, and everyone looked towards the explosion site.

A large circular pit, more than ten meters in diameter and more than one meter deep, appeared on the ground.

Shukaku, the One-Tailed Beast with a round, bulging belly, was in a sorry state. He was injured, and hot oil covered half of his body, which was still burning.

The tailed beast's blood flowed out like it was free.

He was furious after being injured by a ninja. His mouth slowly opened, as if in slow motion, and he gathered chakra little by little under the Nara clan's Shadow Binding Technique, preparing to forcibly use the Tailed Beast Ball.

"One more time! Hurry up!" Shikaku was struggling to hold on. The Nara clan ninjas all had their eyes tightly closed, veins bulging on their foreheads, desperately trying to withstand their clan leader's Shadow Binding Technique.

"Protect me," Ino shouted to the Yamanaka clan ninja, and formed hand seals again.

With her chakra increasing, the speed at which she could re-condense her water clone also increased significantly. The temperature dropped rapidly, and her plump water clone quickly condensed again.

Shukaku's eyes were filled with murderous intent as it watched helplessly as the chubby Ino crashed into it again.

Ino shouted "Click!"

A loud "boom" resounded.

Shukaku emerged from the smoke and dust, its body covered in wounds. Ino shouted "Click!" again.

Fat Ino bumped into him again...

Having been bombed three times in a row, Shukaku, unlike Orochimaru, didn't have a cheating substitution technique. It took the full force of the three explosions. Ino was exhausted and covered in sweat; he couldn't take it anymore either.

The One-Tailed Beast had exhausted too much chakra, and its consciousness slowly faded away. Gaara, on the other hand, regressed from its perfect tailed beast state to its possessed state.

Its body, which was over ten meters tall, shrank to the size of an ordinary person, with only its face and right hand still resembling a tailed beast.

With the support of his clan, Shikaku firmly controlled his body.

"Shadow Binding Technique successful, now it's up to you."

Ino immediately used the Mind Transfer Technique to enter Gaara's inner world.

Gaara is much simpler than Naruto, and his inner world isn't filled with a bunch of mahjong-playing "idle people." In Ino's memories, she only saw his androgynous uncle, Yashamaru, who was the best person to Gaara, without exception. Unfortunately, the Fourth Kazekage, who liked digging in the sand and collecting trash, messed things up and ruined this bond for the sake of a so-called test.

Gaara killed his beloved uncle Yashamaru with his own hands, and then fell into endless self-blame and pain. When his emotions reached a limit, they began to rebound. He hated the world and everyone.

Ino had forgotten how Naruto had used his persuasive skills to talk Gaara in the original timeline. Their backgrounds and experiences were different, and she didn't really understand his emotions or empathize with him. She could only rely on her own words.

Chapter 165 Alliance

"Actually, I'm not good at talking at all." Ino sighed as she looked at Gaara, who appeared to be only seven or eight years old, huddled in the corner.

The other person kept their head down, showing no reaction whatsoever to the outsider entering their inner world. They hugged their knees, their head buried deep, appearing completely numb.

“I don’t know Kankuro, but your sister loves you. Actually, she’s very scared and timid, but she still mustered up her courage and wanted to protect you with her tender hands.”

Gaara remained silent.

Ino suddenly remembered something and said, "You know your father is dead, right?"

Gaara had absolutely no liking for his father, who dug sand and picked up trash, but Ino still managed to read a slight emotional fluctuation in his heart.

It's still a common problem for Jinchuriki: their hearts are full of love, but because of the Tailed Beasts, they are hated by everyone and yearn for recognition, especially from their family, while suffering.

Naruto is like that, Kaede is like that, and Gaara seems to be like that too.